Distressed Yale 3 is a regular weight, normal width, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, editorial, album art, title cards, typewriter, gritty, vintage, analog, raw, typewriter emulation, aged print, grunge texture, retro tone, monospaced feel, ink spread, rough edges, blunt serifs, textured.
A textured serif with a typewriter-like skeleton and visibly roughened contours. Strokes are sturdy and fairly even, with blunt slab-style terminals and soft, worn corners that suggest ink spread or degraded printing. Counters are open and simple, curves are slightly lumpy, and verticals stay mostly straight, creating a clear, utilitarian rhythm despite the distressed surface. Spacing and letterfit read like a monospaced typewriter model, with consistent character widths and a steady baseline.
Well suited to headlines, posters, packaging, and editorial features where a distressed, vintage typewriter voice is desired. It also works for short passages, pull quotes, and title cards when you want readable text with a pronounced analog texture.
The overall tone is gritty and analog, evoking paperwork, stamped documents, and weathered print. Its imperfections add a human, lived-in quality that feels archival and slightly rebellious rather than polished.
Likely designed to capture a classic typewriter serif structure while layering in deliberate wear and ink irregularity to simulate aged impressions and rough reproduction.
At text sizes the texture remains prominent, giving solid dark color with speckled, irregular edges. Numerals and capitals maintain the same worn treatment, keeping a cohesive “printed-on-rough-stock” impression across the set.